I am going to do one post today detailing the various Kickstarter campaigns taking place right now, some of which you might not be aware of. If you feel we missed one, please drop the link in the comments and i’ll add it to the post. Check out this Kickstarter roundup, below. Remember, no one is forcing your hand to engage in these “campaigns”. People do it because they want to be a part of the album making process and receive actual merch in exchange for contributing.
Kickstarter Roundup: April 3rd
Showbread – Cancer
The OC Supertones – New Album
The Classic Crime – New Album and Tour
Guardian – New Album
The Current (formerly A Current Affair) – New Ep
Starflyer 59 – New Album
Joy Electric – Dwarf Mountain Alphabet
Christafari – New Reggae Worship Album
The Glorious Unseen – New Album “Lovesick”
Blood of the Martyrs – New Ep
Silverline – New Album
Spoken – New Album (Goes Live April 6th)
Brandon Jones is a 35 year old male living in Orange County, CA. with his wife of 15 years, 2 sons, 1 daughter and a bunch of animals. Brandon enjoys living a life for God, Family, Passionate music, the ocean, the mountains, gardening, and working in the Machining industry (Real Job). Too many favorite bands to list here. 
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Hannah Rose
This City Awaits
Aquile (The Voice)
Victor Griffin and Jeff “Oly” Olson (IN~GRAVED)
Kingdom Band
RED
Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (Plumb)
Southbound Fearing
Matt Baird (Spoken)
CedEnough
Brian “Head” Welch (Love and Death)
Andrew Schwab
KJ-52
Lil’ Dre
The O.C. Supertones
A Past Unknown
Gideon
Memphis May Fire
Heath McNease
Belle Epoque
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Congrats to Metavari for funding their new album a few days ago:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/utesch/metavari-is-making-a-record-gravity-is-still-every
You forgot The Glorious Unseen!
Lol, word.
You’re right, I did forget. Oops! *Added*
Stryper said their planning on launching their Kickstarter later this week.
I’ll try to post that one too when it’s live.
That’s a pretty impressive list of bands.
blood of the martyrs?
*Added*
howabout everlife? i think they are a christian band.
There’s quite a few kickstarters that have finished- Jimmy Needham (hymns project), Vota (Son’s and Daughters), Chris Sligh (2 independant albums), Jeremi and Amy Richardson (half of Avalon- worship album), as well as Lara Landon (Overcome- out May 1st).
btw, everlife are in the process of recording their kickstarter video… don’t knwo when it will be online
Oceana too:)
I haven’t found that one yet.
Silverline! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1852913233/silverline-recording-new-album
They really need help, they’re awesome.
I didn’t even know about that one Cimarron. Thanks for the link, i’ll update the post.
You should just have a kickstarter tab like you have an Album Release List. Even though it might be a pain to maintain (rhyme points), there seems to be so many of these things now-a-days.
This to me sound like a good idea… but you also pointed out the challenges pretty well :)
It would be a lot of work. Not as much as the Album Release list but quite similar because you still have to regularly check up & look for new ones. I think Brandon should just stick to doing a regular (weekly or bi-weekly) news post if he wants.
One way it could work would be a user based submissions… you guys could send us a link, goal, en date etc. etc. through a form, it would go on a queue and when approved by staff, would appear on the page.
Hey now that I typed that, it sounds that it could actually be pulled off… What do you guys think, would this be a good idea?
I hope The Glorious Unseen gets funded.
Also, does the fact that the Showbread album has not been fully funded as quickly as last time mean that a lot of people were put off by their last album or that their ideas this time have been too ambitious and people cannot relate? I still expect it to be fully funded in the end but just interesting to consider.
It’s a lot of money for a band that doesn’t have a huge following.
They got loads more money last time though didn’t they? And in a very short space of time.
I wonder if they have lost some of that core, dedicated following after the last album.
My mistake – they got $33,322 and were only asking for $13,000. You are right, that’s a lot of money.
Big Tent Revival
I don’t know if these are still going, but John Elefante, Shaun Groves
Both of those have ended with success
Planning on supporting Showbread, The Glorious Unseen, and The Classic Crime even though they’ve gotten a lot of backers already. I was about to suggest Project 86′s Kickstarter but apparently that ended last Winter. Don’t know how I missed that..
Elisa Ray still has 2 hours left to go but they have completely funded their project. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/837930790/elisaray-full-length-album
ive done metavari and joy e
Spoken is now online: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1552670493/new-spoken-record-new-band-new-sound-new-beginning
Fallstar has also a kickstarter now: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fallstar/help-fallstar-get-back-on-the-road?ref=live
That Spoken campaign interests me and I’ll probably contribute
This one isn’t kickstarter, but Paul Colman is going to be doing a new album soon, via Indiegogo- check out this youtube video
I don’t think the project is online yet
that one for Fallstar is for a new van :)
The Fallstar one is really creative. I would love to support those guys. They’re solid!!
Did you readers see my suggestion above… would anyone be interested in that feature?
I think it’s a good idea but if you just put a tab up there that says “Kickstarter” it might make people confused into thinking IVM has a campaign ;)
I like the idea, I think most everything that these bands put on Kickstarter deserves to be funded and they should get a little help promoting it.
The Ongoing Concept http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theongoingconcept/project-full-length
this isn’t kickstarter, but here’s Paul Colman’s latest
http://www.indiegogo.com/Paul_Colman
Ok, either you’re trying to be sneaky (and it’s not working), or you have a brother/twin who has a STRONG RESEMBLANCE to you (i’m going with the former, as two people posting almost the exact same thing with the very similar pictures seems odd). Haha, I don’t mean anything personal by this, just an observation :)
Brothers
AustinG, i’m not sure what your above comment was trying to say… Yes I do have a twin brother http://www.indievisionmusic.com/author/jonandre22/; he is a reviewer at this site, and yes, we have similar interests.
The Classic Crime finished at $86,277 and Blood of the Martyrs finished at $2,959, both successful.
Looks like Supertones are gonna make it, less than 2k to go. Still surprised about some of the others though, like The Glorious Unseen only has half the funding so far =/